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DELORIS KOAN | Push back against techno-feudalism, support the feral cat women

“How about we close our eyes. A letter, an invitation, to come away. To start again.” Humane people will be tjanking at this point in the sublime movie The Last Letter ...

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Case family’s link with first-ever SA Grand Prix in East London

As South Africa begins the bidding to host a Formula One Grand Prix, Kyalami will inevitably feature as a high-profile contender, along with ...

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DELORIS KOAN | LA ‘firenado’ hands out another climate change ...

Allrighty, so that is done then. Now that giant chunks of Los Angeles have become a raging inferno, the issue of climate breakdown is in your ...

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DELORIS KOAN | We dads and hacks salute you, ...

A tree has fallen. An indigenous tree. The first and only reader of this column, Lewis James, has passed on to a higher realm where there are better Westerns to read, electrical networks to build, celestial constellations to study and children to ...
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It is a time of family and feasting for Tsolo’s ...

He was the last man standing on the latest season of MasterChef SA and now Tsolo-born Lona Rode is gearing up to cook a mega meal for an extended family Christmas bash. Rode, 35, a self-taught cook who impressed the show’s judges with his ...
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A slow-roast Christmas for the Roasted Dad

It’s going to be a slow roast kind Christmas for MasterChef SA 2022 winner Shawn Godfrey who is looking forward to ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Hot stone and cool Karoo waters

When you are sitting on an ellipse-shaped varnished bench in a kitchen wearing only your Oddballs underwear and your ...

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DELORIS KOAN | HO HO! SANTA IS GOING SOLO

I will be alone this Christmas. Nobody is allowed to invite me in like a stray for I have made a momentous ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Gilded celestial shriek takes centre stage

The Guild was gilded in gold. For two nights I did not sit in faded felt seats, some that fall further down than ...

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DELORIS KOAN | The fiery hell of ‘development’

Look, we have to point out the fibs but my early morning tour of the beachfront bellowed them. This is the era of ...

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DELORIS KOAN | A day in the life in these sands of time

Today it feels like the darkness where no light gets in. That is a line from Territory, a wonderful Australian ...

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Return to the Hogsback Gardens for the roses

The Hogsback Open Gardens returns for its second round of spring blooms, and this time it’s for the roses.  The ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Christmas miracle comes early for Quigney

Isn’t it time for something to work? Don’t we need more than tinsel and the jingle of tills? We need a good story, ...

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Helping senior citizens keep fit and healthy

“Ageing is just another word for living.” This famous quote is often attributed to American-born actress Cindy ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Enjoy the sun, but don’t bury your head in the sand

It behoves me to be the harbinger of gloom, so let me say Thursday was expected to be a great day of sunshine. But ...

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How Cafu’s world title victory inspires Duncan Village

Phumelela Cafu’s world boxing title victory in Japan has given destitute Duncan Village residents hope of overcoming ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Donald Woods waits down the road for sanity to arrive

Cheesecake and Transkei. Though not in that order: a giant caramel-drizzled slice at Shelley’s after the longest, ...

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Love gets the spotlight in Lusikisiki at mass white wedding

Odwa Wopula and his wife, Nwabisa, founders of the Bags on Call events management company and popular Uthando ...

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DELORIS KOAN | Hold on to that cosmic communal dust

A man in slip-slops, sackcloth pants and a Tee, drove Hetty over the hump to safety. I picked up the GSA adventure ...

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DELORIS KOAN | To those who hold the line with grace and stamina

Right here, on this piece of sand, great and tawdry things happen. It was actually once a piece of tar, but then the ...